There is more than one Philip Doddridge important to history:
Philip Doddridge (Nonconformist)
Philip Doddridge (Virginia)
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PhilipDoddridge (June 26, 1702 - October 26, 1751) was an English Nonconformist leader.
His father, Daniel Doddridge, was a merchant, and his mother the orphan daughter of the Rev. John Bauman, a Lutheran clergyman who had fled from Prague to escape religious persecution, and had held for some time the mastership of the grammar school at Kingston upon Thames.
Doddridge's academy is now represented by New College, Hampstead, in the library of which there is a large collection of his manuscripts.
Doddridge was freer in his comments on Calvin than most Calvinists, telling his students, "Calvin has a multitude of judicious thoughts; but they are generally intermingled with a great many that are little to the purpose." This criticism has hurt many Calvinistic commentators who feel that their hero has thus been removed from his pedestal.
Doddridge simply main~ tained that revival of religion was the task of the Holy Spirit within the work of the universal church, in which true Christians, whatever their denominations, should work together.
Doddridge was never in good health and was always so thin that he could best be described as "a bag of bones." Yet he was often compared to a hare, always running hither and thither for the Lord.
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